ARTSn “The Miss Firecracker Contest" | 7:30 p.m., UA Gallaway Theatre. Presented by the Theatre and Dance Department. Tickets are $13 for adults, $11 for UA faculty/staff and seniors and $9 for students and are available at the Box office. Call 205-348-3400 or visit www.as.ua.edu/theatre.Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Religion and Conflict | Symposium, 8:45 a.m.-5 p.m., UA Gorgas Library. Session I at 8:45-10:15 a.m., “Religion as the Structuring of Asymmetrical Relations" by Tim Murphy, UA Department of Religious Studies; Session II, 10:30 a.m.-noon, “A Consuming Fire: the Violence of Inquisition and Meanings of Medieval Religion" by Christine Ames, Department of History, University of South Carolina; Session III, 2-3:30 p.m. “Political Religion? Deploying the Sacred in Hitler’s Germany" by George Williamson, UA Department of History; Session IV, 3:45-5:30 p.m. “The Stillness That Comes After: African Traditional Religions, Christianity and the Meaning of Death in David Bradley’s The Chaneysville Incident" by Maha Marouan, UA Department of Religious studies. Free admission. Call 205-348-4218.COMMUNITYLittle Lambs Consignment Sale | 9 a.m.-6 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 800 Greensboro Ave. Call 205-239-1506.Annual Retired VA Nursing Service Employees luncheon | 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Five Points Baptist Church, behind Northport Civic Center in Northport. Call 205-343-9132.Habitat for Humanity ReStore preview party | 5-7 p.m., old Turner & Schoel building, 1020 McFarland Blvd. N., across from Northport Medical Center. E-mail sbishop@hfhtuscaloosa.org.Book exchange show | 5-8 p.m., fifth-floor gallery, University of Alabama Gorgas Library. Sponsored by the Master of Fine Arts, Book Arts Program in at UA’s School of Library and Information Studies. Features work by students in the book arts graduate program of Columbia College Chicago, hand-printing demos, a live Web cast of deep-fried books at Columbia College and light refreshments. UA work will be displayed in Chicago. The two shows will run concurrently until Oct. 28. Call 205-239-1006.

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